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Announcing the BatCAT project

BatCAT is a new research and innovation project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme that will run until June 2027.

The project aims to create a digital twin for battery manufacturing by developing a cross-chemistry data space for two technologies: Li-ion and Li-S coin cells and redox flow batteries.

Here at GCL, we are excited to be leading the work package on communication, dissemination and exploitation and contributing to physics-based modelling and ontologies.

The project is a large collaboration between 18 partner organisations from 9 European countries, coordinated by NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences).

We look forward to working on this innovative and sustainable initiative.

Read more in an announcement from our partners at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.

 

Abstracts invited for MSE Congress 2024

The Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Congress 2024 will take place 24–26 September 2024 in Darmstadt, Germany and online. The scientific program features world-renowned experts and aspiring researchers alike.

The congress will cover numerous topics including biomaterials; characterisation; digital transformation; functional materials; surfaces and devices; circular materials; modelling and simulation; processing and synthesis; and structural materials.

Gerhard will be co-chairing a special symposium entitled “Digital materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies, and interoperability”.

Abstracts for talks are invited for submission by 31 January 2024.

 

 

Reflecting on 2023!

As 2023 draws to a close, here at Goldbeck Consulting, we have been reflecting on our successes from this year. Thanks to all of the support from you — our clients, partners and collaborators — there have been lots of highlights! 

We have had the privilege to be involved with six EU projects. Two of these projects have now successfully completed, MarketPlace and OntoCommons, and four that we look forward to continuing work on throughout next year, OntoTrans, OpenModel, nanoMECommons, and DOME 4.0. 

Our work in EU projects and with consulting clients has enabled us to participate in several events, like FEMS EUROMAT 2023, Nanotexnology, OIP-2023 Conference and Scientific Applications of Quantum Computing. 

And our collaborative efforts have resulted in a number of publications and reports: 

Materials Modelling and Informatics Software Market

MarketPlace – a Digital Materials Modelling Marketplace

The Translator in Knowledge Management for Innovation – A Semantic Vocation of Value to Industry

Fundamental Philosophical Commitments for Top-Level Ontologies

Science Communication and Social Media Work as Part of the OntoTrans Project

Review and Alignment of Domain-Level Ontologies for Materials Science

CHAMEO: Characterisation Methodology Ontology

Materials characterisation and software tools as key enablers in Industry 5.0 and wider acceptance of new methods and products 

Modeling experts, knowledge providers and expertise in Materials Modeling: MAEO as an application ontology of EMMO’s ecosystem

A report on the Workshop “Towards Materials and Manufacturing Commons – the enablers Digital Marketplaces, FAIR Principles and Ontologies”

We look forward to an exciting new year to work with both existing and new partners, clients and projects. We will continue to work and consult in the areas of software industry insights, exploitation and business planning and all things related to materials modelling, informatics, ontologies and semantic knowledge management.  

Here’s to a prosperous New Year filled with continued collaboration and success!

 

Demystifying Materials and Manufacturing Commons

Materials and manufacturing commons is demystified in this latest report from a workshop that provided academic researchers and industrial practitioners the opportunity to discuss key enablers and challenges in this growing area. This work was done as part of the OntoCommons project.

Read the full report here.

Many thanks to our partners and collaborators for this work – Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, UK Research and Innovation, e-Science Data Factory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes – ENIT

 

Ontology and Philosophy

Ontologies have their origins in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, they have made somewhat in recent decades, not least due to the emergence of the semantic web and related applications in knowledge management, whether in sciences, engineering or business and finance.  If you ever wondered how philosophy is still highly relevant, if not crucial, to creating good ontologies, here is a short post for you, thanks to Oskar Holtz, a second year UCL Philosophy student who joined us as a summer intern.